Apparatus for making and filling hinged boxes of a foldable material
AssigneeFocke & Pfuhl
InventorHeinz Focke
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Abstract
There is provided a method and apparatus of making and filling a hinged box of a foldable material, more particularly cardboard, especially a hinged box for cigarettes, which box comprises a blank with front, rear and end walls, side walls formed from lateral flaps and a hinged lid. The end wall and front wall and the lateral flaps thereof are first simultaneously folded by movement of the blank in relation to folding tools into a position perpendicular to the rear wall and part of the blank adjoining the rear wall and thereafter further foldings are performed by the movement of folding tools in relation to the already partially folded blank.
Claims84
In an apparatus for producing and filling hinged boxes from a foldable, blank, said blank having front, rear and end walls, side walls formed from lateral flaps, and a blank section forming a hinged lid;
- the improvement comprising:
- a rotating turret, said turret having a number of pockets;
- each pocket open radially outwards and upwards for receiving a blank, punch means for pressing said blank into a pocket, said punch means comprising a punch plate, wherein a free surface of said pocket is covered by said rear wall of the blank, means for folding said end wall, said front wall and side walls into an upright position on the radial inner side of said pocket and said lateral flaps into an upright position and wherein said blank sections forming the hinged lid lie in the same plane as the rear wall of said blank and contents are insertable in said pocket in a radial direction in the plane of said rear wall of the blank.
The apparatus of claim 41, further comprising stop arms, said stop arms pivoted out of engagement by cam discs which are controlled synchronously with an ejection member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.